Caster



J. HATCH & J. H. GEORGE.

(N0 Model.)

(EASTER.

No. 395,186. Patented Dec. 25, 1888.

u w a N m w w UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

JONATHAN HATCH, OF SOUTH \VINDHAM, AND JAMES HERBERT GEORGE, OF NORlVIOIl, CONNECTICUT.

CASTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 395,136, dated December 25, 1888.

Application filed May 16, 1888. Serial No. 274,098. (No model.)

To ail u'h-o'm/ It may concern:

Be it known that we, JONATHAN HATCH, of South Windham, \Vindham county, Connecticut, and JAMES il-IERBERT GEORGE, of Norwich, New London county, Connecticut, both citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful lmprovem cuts in Casters, which im nrovements are fully set forth and described in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, in which Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of a piano-leg having a caster of our new form attached thereto, said leg being partially cut away to expose said caster. Fig. 2 is a bottom end view of a similar leg and caster. Fig. 3 is an enlarged central vertical section of a piano-leg and its attached caster, and illustrates the construction and relative positions of the sex'eral elementary parts of the same. Fig. l is a cros, section of the threaded pintlc 71 and its inclosing-shell b.

This invention is in furniture-casters, and has for its immediate object the production of a simple device by means of which the wheel of a caster may be readily adjusted vertically, and which will require no special tools to operate it.

(asters of our improvt d construction are applicable to various classes of furniture, but are especially adapted for use on piano-legs,

and we have tlnerel'orc shown said invention as so applied.

Referring to the drawings, the letter a inj dicates a portion of a piano-leg, the same being 1n-efeiably cupped at its lower end to receive and partially hide the caster. Said upward through the (lisk c, and is interlocked with said disk by bending over the inner end of the nut, or by any other method that will prevent the removal of said nut. This nut d may be freely rotated within disk 0, and is provided with an operating-handle, c, that projects downward and radially from said nut and by means of which the nut may be rotai \i 4 without lifting the leg (it or otherwise disturbing the article of furniture to which it is attached. Screwed into nut d is the caster-pintle 72 whose lower end is shouldered and headed to receive and retain the swivel caster-head 2, that carries the roller k. This threaded pintle 7L is slottedlongitudinally, as at m, to receive a lug, a, formed on the shell I), the oflice of said lug and slot being to prevent the rotation of the pintle 71.

Assuming that we have a caster constructed and assembled as above described, it will be understood that by rotating the nut (l the pintle h will travel slowly upward or downward through said nut, and the attached cast 611Oll61 7; will be correspondingly elevated or lowered. The handle 6, projectingoutward from the lower end of the leg, provides a convenient and powerful means for rotating the said nut and dispenses with the necessity of using a wrench or other tool.

llaving ('lescribed our invention, we claim In a furniture-castier, the eon'ibimttion, with a shell or socket and a disk, of an internallythrcadeiil nut independent of said socket adapted to be rotated in said disk, and having a laterally-ln'ojccting operating-arm, and a threaded noii-rotatable pintlc adapted to be screwed into said nut, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JONATHAN HATt/H. J, HERBERT GEORGE.

'itnesses:

FRANK H. ALLEN, F. L. ALLEN. 

